Background: Preparing healthcare professionals for teaching is regarded as essential to
enhancing teaching effectiveness. Although many reports describe various faculty …

Medical education has evolved to become a discipline in its own right. With demands on
medical faculties to be socially responsible and accountable, there is now increasing …

Objectives Participants in faculty development workshops often comment that 'those who
need faculty development the most attend the least'. The goals of this study were to explore …

Medical Education 2010: 44: 900–907 Objectives The goals of this study were three‐fold: to
explore the reasons why some clinical teachers regularly attend centralised faculty …

Although reflection contributes to the personal growth of clinician–educators and is
important for effective teaching, few teaching skills programs report its use. The Johns …

This study examines the pedagogical training process of medical professors at a Brazilian
university, the meanings attributed to it, and the positive and negative aspects identified in it …

The term'medical educator'describes a number of roles, including that of teacher and
assessor, curriculum planner and evaluator, educational leader and manager, researcher …

Interest in the development of medical educators working in the postgraduate sector is
running high. Driven by three interlinked trends—the professionalisation of medical …

The principal purpose of faculty development is to improve practice. We use faculty
development to manage change and to develop strengths and skills. This is achieved …

Background: Little is known about how medical educators perceive their own expertise,
needs and challenges in relation to medical education. Aim: To survey an international …